Quotes from Will Rogers

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Politics is applesauce.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

When you're through learning, you're through.

It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.